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189:"Museum of the Illinois State Natural History Society" By C.D. Wilder from Transactions of the Illinois State Agricultural Society, with Reports from County and District Agricultural Societies, Volume 4 p. 673, 1861. Retrieved from Google Books 7/31/2013
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spacious gallery one hundred feet in length and thirty three feet wide. This hall called the Museum of
Geology and Natural History was built from plans furnished by Richard H. Holder of Bloomington who visited the Museums of the
178:"Natural History in Schools" by A. M. Gow. from Transactions of the Illinois State Agricultural Society, with Reports from County and District Agricultural Societies, Volume 4 p. 623, 1861. Retrieved from Google Books 7/31/2013
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